Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program, part of an early notification plan adopted throughout the Ivy League in 1976, the Admissions Office notifies early admissions candidates of their acceptance, rejection, or deferral by January 1. Accepted applicants have until May 1 to reply to the office. The number of students admitted under the program rose from 439 to this year...
...history. In December the first child was born in the new homeland of a tribe of America's oldest people, the Mohawk Indians, who won a piece of state land at Ganienkeh, N.Y., after a three-year struggle. Indeed, both the nation's birth and marriage rates rose in 1977. Though serious problems persist in the U.S., a sense of well-being and restored community pervades...
...their own economic futures. The close-in issues of inflation and unemployment, energy and taxes top the worry lists in all the polls, but concerns about far-off Russia or Africa are way down on the list. Despite the ravages of inflation, the median U.S. family's income rose in 1977, and 92 million Americans are now working, up from 86 million in November 1974. The hottest country-and-western hit is Johnny Paycheck's good-natured, blue-collar cry for the freedom to find work that satisfies as well as sustains: Take This Job and Shove...
...Anwar Sadat over in Cairo just as if he were on the phone to Plains. Carter filled in the Egyptian President on what he and Begin had discussed. Begin went off to visit his old friend Kissinger, then dropped in on the ailing Senator Hubert Humphrey. When Zbig rose at lunch at the Israeli embassy to toast the mutual commitment to a noble ideal, to "the birth of peace," the emotional response in the room startled almost everyone. And a little later Henry Kissinger, the enduring wit, could chortle, "We may be doomed to peace...
...holiday quiet that settled on Washington's Mall, breathtakingly beautiful in the morning mist from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, there seemed to be at the very least a moment of shared hope that rose larger than the multitude of problems that any New Year inevitably brings...